MSc Accounting, Accountability and Sustainability

Core and specialist options

You will start by developing an understanding of accounting systems, financial and non-financial reporting, and organisational accountability for environmental and social impacts while studying core units in:

• Accounting theory
• Accounting and accountability for sustainability
• Research methods in accounting
• Sustainability assurance and corporate governance.

You will then progress into more applied and specialist areas by selecting two optional units, which may include:

• Sustainable work futures in the digital economy
• Green and sustainable finance
• Sustainability and ethics in global supply chains.

Final project

Your studies in teaching blocks 1 and 2 build the foundations for your 60-credit independent research project, completed over the summer. In this Master's Impact Project, you will plan and execute an academic, practice-based or reflective-practice project at an appropriate professional standard.

Options include:

• Independent research project
• Business-based research project
• Business practice project
• Thematic research portfolio.

Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for our MSc Accounting, Accountability and Sustainability.

You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in a quantitative subject (whether as a single, joint, or combined honours degree) such as:

• Accounting and Finance
• Actuarial Sciences
• Business
• Computer Science
• Data Science
• Economics
• Engineering
• Finance
• International Economics and Trade
• Maths
• Management
• Physics
• Commerce (with specialism in Accounting/Finance/A&F/Economics).

If your degree subject is not listed above, you must have evidence of an upper second-class honours degree or international equivalent which includes one unit of mathematics from the Maths qualification requirements list below, with 60% (UK equivalent) or above in this unit

OR

A-level Mathematics with grade A if no mathematics or quantitative unit in your degree.

If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date.

If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date.

We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. Specific module requirements would still apply.

We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements.

If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, or if your subject is not listed above, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional relevant work experience or qualifications. If you have at least one of the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing:

• evidence of five years' work experience in accounting and finance roles such as: financial reporting, management accounting, auditing, sustainability and environmental services roles focused on sustainability, transparency, or accountability, and business roles focused on data and analytics
• a relevant postgraduate qualification, specific module requirements would still apply, which can be met in either undergraduate or postgraduate qualifications.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.